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Feet are amazing works of art. Feet are also maste

Feet are amazing works of art. Feet are also masterpieces of function. How your feet move and how they are positioned determine the health and positioning of all the rest of your body’s bones and so how all the rest of your muscles are used. Your foot health really matters!
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It’s #nationalfeetweek this week and to celebrate my Fix Foot Pain course has an incredible 40% off!
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In my Fix Foot Pain course you will:
🙂Understand the causes of your foot pain so you understand how to fix them.
🙂Be guided through straightforward exercises in a clear and detailed way in easy-to-follow steps.
🙂Strengthen your feet so they can take you wherever you want to go and feel great doing it.
🙂Save money by achieving a long-term fix to your foot pain problems and stop the need to buy orthotics.
🙂Feel better all over thanks to having feet that feel great!
🙂Understand why foot orthotics, injections and surgery are most likely not the solution to your foot pain.
🙂Get feet that are pain-free and feel great.
🙂Feel like yourself again by removing the pain from your feet – not just today but forever.
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It takes a bit of effort to get feet that feel great and some commitment but the aftereffects are immeasurable.
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Find the link to my Fix Foot Pain course through my bio link. This fabulous offer will end on Saturday.
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Is your forefoot stiff and immobile? Try getting y

Is your forefoot stiff and immobile?
Try getting your metatarsals moving and release tight muscles with a ball.
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Curl your midfoot over a ball and apply pressure for at least 20 seconds. Keep your heel in the floor for leverage and to stretch the back of your calves and increase how much your ankle bends.
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Try not to resist the stretch, let your foot relax over the ball.
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You are better off doing this standing up to get maximum effect.
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Let's take an imaginary case of plantar fasciitis

Let's take an imaginary case of plantar fasciitis where the worst pain is in the heel. Plantar fasciitis can come from a number of places but very often it comes from tightness in the muscles in the back of the calf. Tight calf muscles reduce the range that the ankle can dorsiflex (bending the foot towards the shin), the achilles tendon continuously pulls the heel bone and keeps the plantar fascia short. The plantar fascia inflames and this hurts - a lot.
It could even go higher up the leg than that - like the tightness in the calf has happened because the glute isn't firing properly. This is just one imaginary example - there are a multitude more scenarios.
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The crux of it is, if you have muscle problems in your foot you need to work at the leg and hip not just on the foot itself. Same goes the other way round.
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Helping the foot to move better by using barefoot shoes, toe spacers and doing foot massages are great but to properly get healthy feet you also have to look up the leg. It isn't just the foot that needs working on.
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The 20 plus muscles of the foot help it to move and give it it's shape but many of the muscles that power the foot’s movement originate as high up as the back of the knee. They are heavily influenced by the movement of the pelvis and sometimes even above that. The foot muscles change length as the foot and the leg move relative to each other.
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If you suspect your foot is less mobile than it should be or more mobile than it should be you need to work on the foot itself but you also need to work above that.

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This is one of those posts that I started and then spent a stupidly long time on! I have too much spare time these days 😆. My diary is starting to fill with 1:1 consultations from April 12th. Let me know if you would like to book in!

Enough said. ⠀ Happy weekend! ⠀ Rx ⠀

Enough said.
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Happy weekend!
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Rx
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